100th Day Fun!

We had such a fun 100th Day of kindergarten today! The room was full of smiles, giggles and lots of fun energy! They kept telling me it was the best day ever! It melted my heart! We did a lot of 100 day activities to celebrate our 100th day. We read the story 100 Day Worries, made a necklace with 100 beads by making groups of 10 by color until the necklace was complete, drawing what we'd look like if we were 100. We also made puppet where I took their picture and we created what they would look like if they were 100 too. The puppets turned out SO cute and they LOVED them! We also did a Jack Hartman video where we exercised counting to 100 counting by 1's. It was such a fun day! With 100th day fun in the morning and the valentine's day party in the afternoon, I know this will be a day they will remember forever! Thank you to all the room reps and all the parent volunteers who came today to host an AMAZING Valentine's Day party! It was so much fun! Here are some pictures I took of our 100th Day fun today:

We made puppets of what we would look like if we were 100. They LOVED making these!

We counted our 100 day collection by making 10 groups of 10 and skip counting up to 100 when they were done sorting. They are all experts at counting to 100 by 10's now! Wow!

We made 100 day necklaces where they made 5 groups of 10 (50 beads) and put on the "100th Day" medallion and then added the next 50 beads by making 5 groups of 10 to total 100 all together. They were so proud to wear their finished necklaces when they were done! Way to go, K-1!

Happy "early" Groundhog Day!

Since Sunday is Groundhog Day, we spent some of our kindergarten day learning about what this fun holiday is. They had fun learning about it and making groundhog hats. We also learned some fun facts about groundhogs too such as: Did you know that groundhogs incisor teeth keep growing and growing? They gnaw on sticks and wood to sharpen them and keep them shorter. If they didn't do that, groundhogs would have some VERY LONG teeth! In class, I did a groundhog directed draw with them too and we graphed our predictions on what the groundhog will see on Sunday. All but one friend in our class is hoping the groundhog doesn't see his shadow so we can have an early spring. It was such a fun day today! I am so incredibly proud of how far my kinder friends are coming as learners! They beam with smiles while they are here which fills my heart knowing they are having so much fun while they are learning oodles!!  Here are some pictures I took of the class wearing their adorable groundhog hats. They of course wanted to take a few silly pictures. They are too cute!

Also, please remember that next week si Digital Citizenship week where we will be talking about the importance of being safe, responsible, and respectful online. During the whole week, a new topic based on Digital Citizenship will be explained to the class. We will see a video each day talking about this important topic. Along with discussing it, they are asked to participate in some fun things each day as well. Please see below:

Almost February? How?

Wow! How is it February 1st on Saturday already? The year is flying by and going way to FAST! With it being February in a few days, we made our calendars today where they got to create heart masterpieces on top of their February calendars. They turned out so cute! I reminded them all that when they got home they should hang it in a special spot so that they could check each day to see all the important things that are happening in our classroom or at Olive. They had so much fun making them today! Great job, K-1!